# Books at Bedtime By Calming Anxiety - The Nightingale and the Rose - By Oscar Wilde Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/calming-anxiety-guided-meditation-sleep-hypnosis-panic-attack-relief-98140/books-at-bedtime-by-calming-anxiety-the-nightingale-and-the-rose-by-oscar-wilde Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/calming-anxiety-guided-meditation-sleep-hypnosis-panic-attack-relief-98140/books-at-bedtime-by-calming-anxiety-the-nightingale-and-the-rose-by-oscar-wilde.md Podcast: [Calming Anxiety | Guided Meditation, Sleep Hypnosis & Panic Attack Relief](https://stenobird.com/podcast/calming-anxiety-guided-meditation-sleep-hypnosis-panic-attack-relief-98140) Published: 2026-09-04T08:00:03+00:00 Episode link: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/books-at-bedtime-by-calming-anxiety-the-nightingale-and-the-rose-by-oscar-wilde--74782207 Audio file: https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/74782207/books_at_bedtime_by_calming_anxiety_the_nightingale_and_the_rose_by_oscar_wilde.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/calming-anxiety-guided-meditation-sleep-hypnosis-panic-attack-relief-98140/episodes/books-at-bedtime-by-calming-anxiety-the-nightingale-and-the-rose-by-oscar-wilde Duration seconds: 1099 ## Resource The Nightingale and the Rose by Oscar Wilde — A Calming Bedtime Story for Sleep & Insomnia | Books at Bedtime A soothing bedtime story to help you drift off tonight: Oscar Wilde's beautiful, bittersweet fairy tale The Nightingale and the Rose, read slowly and gently for sleep, insomnia relief, and unhurried listening. This continues the Books at Bedtime strand — also known as Coffee Break for the Soul — from the Calming Anxiety podcast, a series of classic story readings designed as a calming audiobook for restless or anxious nights. For the full library, plus ambient night-light features for the small hours, download Anchored on iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/anchored-panic-anxiety/id6785035669 Narrated softly by Martin Hewlett, clinical hypnotherapist and former paramedic, this reading follows a heartbroken young student who longs for a single red rose to win the girl he loves, and the little nightingale in the oak tree above who resolves, quietly and selflessly, to give him one. A gentle, atmospheric fable about love and sacrifice rather than anything unsettling — ideal as a sleep story or relaxation audiobook for falling asleep, insomnia, and quieting an anxious mind before bed. First published in 1888 in the collection The Happy Prince and Other Tales, Oscar Wilde's The Nightingale and the Rose is in the public domain worldwide (Wilde died in 1900); this reading is Calming Anxiety's own narration of the classic public-domain text. This episode continues the Books at Bedtime strand, alongside The Selfish Giant, The Happy Prince, and The Sphinx Without a Secret (also by Oscar Wilde), and classic short fiction from Katherine Mansfield, Kate Chopin, and Arthur Conan Doyle — currently working through The Hound of the Baskervilles — with new instalments added re… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/calming-anxiety-guided-meditation-sleep-hypnosis-panic-attack-relief-98140/episodes/books-at-bedtime-by-calming-anxiety-the-nightingale-and-the-rose-by-oscar-wilde/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/calming-anxiety-guided-meditation-sleep-hypnosis-panic-attack-relief-98140/books-at-bedtime-by-calming-anxiety-the-nightingale-and-the-rose-by-oscar-wilde.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.